Moses Farrow supporting his father Woody Allen

[janterry]

48. Poor woman, her daddy was mentally ill

Dory Previn was born Dorothy Langan into an Irish-American family in New Jersey in 1925. Her father had been gassed in the Great War and believed himself sterile. As a result, he thought that Dory was not his daughter. His paranoia was so intense that he boarded up the family in the living room for some days and then locked himself in the attic. In her 1970 song, "With My Daddy In The Attic", she wanted to join him: "He wanted me to be a dancer," she told me in 1986, "and he thought it would be amazing if I could do something that nobody else could do. I used to do backbends and pick up handkerchiefs and then one day, he said, 'I have a new idea for the act, you can pick up razor blades.' I always wanted to please him and so I did it. Strange."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dory-previn-singer-and-songwriter-hailed-for-hersearing-honesty-6945652.html

Such a mess - so many messy families. And they passed on their mess to their children .

Interesting album. I almost think she should have been a poet.